Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.